Wow, for a moment I thought I hit a grand slam.

[multigraincracker]

I have a ton of post cards I bought years ago. Every so often I'll dig out a box full and sell at the mall. Yesterday I found a baseball player real photo card. GF googled it and the first one that came up was a 1909 baseball card of this guy that sold for over a quarter million. This one was a little earlier, a 1907.

Oh well, that one that sold was a real baseball card and not a post card. Then, this one is not perfect either, one crease on the left side. Found a few post cards with Carl Lundgren a pitcher for the Cubs going for about $150, but not this one. Have to put it on eBay and will be thrilled with $50. But for that one moment....

Found the one I was looking for. It's a photo of a festival in Ohio from the early 1900s of an elephant walking across main street on a tight rope. Looks like a real scene and I don't think they had photo shop back then. Have no idea what it is worth, so it'll go for sale on line too.

Also found another baseball post card. No info on the back, but it's a picture of two players and the team name on their shirts is Shamrocks.

[KS Toronado]

1. I'd enjoy seeing the elephant on a tight rope

Was it sagging much?

[multigraincracker]

2. Looks really tight.

Lots of guide wires. Now that I'm looking at it, how did they get that elephant up on and down from those roofs?

[KS Toronado]

3. Check this out

https://www.ebay.com/itm/283424411421?hash=item41fd694f1d:g:sWsAAOSwopRYiEOC

[bucolic_frolic]

4. I moved a few postcards

But truly it's a boring game. I have a few dozen - geography, holiday, humor. And a few from dad who brought home anything he found. There are WWII postcards, from both sides. and a few cabinet cards, which are large, stiff cards, sometimes of famous people, or not.

[multigraincracker]

5. I have a trunk full of them.

Does get boring pricing them. Been just marking most for a dollar. First day I put in a shoe box full, sold almost a hundred of them.

[bucolic_frolic]

6. That's production like a factory

I've had a oouple lots that cleared about a dollar per postcard, but then also a couple of $3 cards and a $10. You're right, obscure US geography and places is what sells. And so far mine have gone mostly to locals.

[multigraincracker]

7. GF has been putting a few on eBay.

A few have gone for $30 and $40 and more in the $5 to $10 range. Small town RPC do great, just never know which ones.

[bucolic_frolic]

8. How do you package these things for eBay Standard Envelope postage?

I had a sale of 7 thin postcards, and one got damaged with a corner folder over. I have been using a quality #10 envelope with a glued on label. Buyers tells me I needed cardboard. Well you can't make it too stiff, they tell you that up front. Do you buy these yellow manilla 6x9" envelopes and put a cardboard frame around them? Thickness has to be uniform, and not stiff. Somedays the whole eBay is just too much for me.

[multigraincracker]

9. 1 or 2 can go in 6X8 rigid package.

and if it is 3 or more it cost more as it is not flexible enough to go thru mailing machine. Only 1 or 2 stamps do it. She bought these off of eBay. Will get a little smaller ones next time.
Problem with more than 3, you are talking almost $4 shipping. We've been putting single ones on with $1.99 with free shipping. The ones that get several bids pay for the rest.
Still figuring it out.

[bucolic_frolic]

10. So they're about the stiffness of a Priority Mail Flat Rate Envelope? /nt

[multigraincracker]

11. Here is the ad on eBay for what we are using now.

Will try some of the others

https://www.ebay.com/itm/380098093448